HC Deb 09 February 2001 vol 362 cc769-70W
Caroline Flint

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what the value was of Government financial support for education in Doncaster for each year from 1996–97 to 2000–01; [149072]

(2) if he will list the schools and organisations in the Don Valley constituency which have received financial support from the standards fund, in each year since the fund was created. [149073]

Ms Estelle Morris

The allocations for education in Doncaster local education authority for each year from 1996–97 to 2000–01 are set out in the following table:

£000
Education SSA
1996–97 119,700
1997–98 118,600
1998–99 130,300
1999–2000 136,100
2000–01 141,700
Funding allocations
1996–97 7,413
1997–98 6,794
1998–99 3,792
1999–2000 9,667
2000–01 24,967

Outside the education SSA, the main elements of funding in 2000–01 are schools capital, standards fund and school standards grant. In addition, Doncaster local education authority will receive in 2000–01 special grant funding to support elements of the teachers pay reform packages. These are demand-led and will depend on the claims that Doncaster local education authority make for each grant.

Doncaster local education authority has received financial support from the standards fund each year since the fund was created in 1998–99. All maintained schools in Doncaster local education authority would receive a share of that support, including those in the Don Valley constituency.

Prior to 1999–2000, grant maintained schools did not receive financial support through the standards fund. They were funded for similar activities through a special grant paid by the Funding Agency for Schools.

Under this Government, funding per pupil has already increased by over £300 in real terms, and it will increase by a further £150 per pupil for 2001–02. Under the last Government, funding per pupil fell by £60 in real terms between 1994–95 and 1997–98. There will be further increases in funding following the year 2000 spending review: a further £370 per pupil over the three-year period, taking the total increase to nearly £700 between 1997–98 and 2003–04.